Improvement in vehicle-springs



A. B. BISHOP. VEHICLE-SPRING.

Patented J'u1y10 18'77 INVENTOR 9 My a.pa,m s,

1 ATTORNEYJ N.FEI'ERS.-PHOTO-LITNDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

'ABNER BiBISHOP, OF MEDINA, OHIO.

lMPROV EMENT IN VEHICLE-SPRINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,969, dated July 10,1877 application. filed April 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER B. BISHOP, of Medina, in the county of Medinaand State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable I1n-. provement inRunning-Gear and Axles for Wagons; and 1 do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of an end view of myimproved running-gear and axle for wagons. Fig. 2 is a plan view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7are detail, perspective, and sectional views of axles; and Fig. 8 is asectional detail.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementin runninggears for vehicles, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth. I

In the annexed drawing, which fully illus trates my invention, Arepresents the front axle; B, the bolster thereon, united by theking-bolt a. G is the hind axle.

The bolster B and bind axle O are connected by means of four curvedsprings, D D and D D, upon which the bed E is supported.

The two center springs D D are connected to clips 12 12. under the hindaxle O, and their front ends made fast in recesses in the under side ofthe bolster B. The side springs D D are placed upon the ends of rods 01d, which are located on top of the bolster and hind axle. Each rod d isplaced in boxes 0 6, held .to place by clips f f, and through the top ofeach box is passed a set-screw, h, which bears on arubber block, t, ontop of the rod in the box. By turning down these set-screws the rods maybe tightened to compensate for all wear in the boxes, whether of theboxes or the rod itself.

The axle A will be made of steel or iron pressed in the shape of theaxle and axle-bed now in use-that is to say, it will be made entire] yof steel or iron without any attachment of wood on top; and it is madehollow from underneath, whereby it is made much lighter, and,nevertheless, much stronger, than the ordinary axles now in use.

The axle A is provided 011 its upper surface with an enlarged flatsurface, a, with an opening for the king-lock, which forms the lowerhalf of the fifth-whee G G represent the spindles, which are providedwith spindle-arms G G, constructed of such form as to fit within theaxle A. At the inner end of the spindle G is a flange or collar, m, tocome close up tothe end of the axle, and beyond said collar inward for asuitable distance the spindle-arm G is made solid, as shown at r,and-for the remainder of its length it may simply form a plate, as shownat p in Fig. 5, to constitute a bottom for the hollow axle underneath;orit may be made of the same general shape as the hollow axle, and alsoitself hollow, as shown at s in Fig. 3.

These spindle-arms are fastened and held in the axle byclips or anyother suitable means.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combinatiomwith the bolster B and rear axle G, of the two centersprings D D, attached to the under sides thereof, the two side springs DD, attached to the rods d d on top of the bolster and rear axle, theboxes e e, set-screws h h, and rubbers i '11, substantially as shownanddescribed.

In testimony thatI claim the above Ihave hereunto subscribed my name inthe presence of two witnesses.

ABNER B. BISHOP. Witnesses: I

13.15. WHIPPLE, WM. H. ALDEN.

